financial managers law which allowed the government to appoint many dictators to rule over cash strapped cities and harvests the money out of them for corporate profits what cities have been taken over by these many dictators mostly minority low income cities that have already been critically wounded by the billionaires war cities like flint benton harbor and the course in those cities union contracts are broken leaving already struggling workers with lower wages if they're lucky and pink slips if they're not and giant chunks of the commons from public parks to public utilities like water facilities are sold off at fire sale prices to corporate interests who can make enormous profit selling back to us stuff that used to belong to us and that we had for free i recently had reverend d.l. xander bullock on the show to talk about what life is like in these cities. it's war zones taken over by the many dictators. this is a state takeover of the city of detroit flint been harbor the vote does not count it's not on board i mean we voted for our mayor we voted for city council we voted for city commiss

. >> reporter: there are some who are questioning the wisdom of paying $250,000 in a cash- strapped city those critics? >> reporter: that's up to your mayor and city council. i'm quite clear about my capabilities. the issues your city is facing particularly issues involving not only a crime situation but trying to address it at the same time you have so much oversight, there's probably nobody in america with more firsthand experience with that issue than i do having just recently come out of los angeles. and in light of your past weekend out there in oakland where i think you had 4 murders and 15 people shot in a short period of time, i think any money the city spends on trying to deal with this epidemic that you have and

. >> public safety is number one >> pam: the cash=strapped city debates whether to spend a quarter million dollars on controversial police consultant bill bratton supporters say he is the right man to lead the fight against crime in one of america's most violent cities. opponents say they have concerns. >> very valid concerns about bringing in a military=minded man like bratton to make things better. >> pam: right now at eight o-clock. the oakland city council is weighing whether or not to bring in police and security heavyweight bill bratton. to consult its beleagured police department. bratton formerly served as police chief in los angeles, and police commissioner in new york city and in boston. but last week. oakland residents voiced their concerns about bratton's controversial tactics. which include the "stop- and- frisk" policy. kron 4's terisa estacio is live in oakland tonight. where the city council is hearing from those concerned residents. terisa? >> reporter: things are really heating up in oakland. let me show you this hall just one of many rooms that they have been forced to o

given passes and then the tax money which could cost hundreds of millions of dollars more for a strapped cityave lost all patients with their public-sector unions on this particular issue. neil: we see a lot more of these issues. unions, it's going to be annoying to the general public. that is part of the strategy, but is this too much so? >> when i worked for the heritage foundation and cover the wisconsin issue of remember this exact same thought. if you really care what your job of educating children or busing and to school, wire you striking? on the surface the bus drivers concern is very relatable. who would love the employee protection provisions that in sure you have a job, but on some level they're saying that these provisions won't cost the city more. and so my thought is you can only be concerned about losing your job if you're not doing your job well our he thinks someone else is willing to do your job well which means either you're not doing your job well or will cost the city more. the argument is does nothold up neil: your pr pointed you about how your battle with higher wages i

among the hardest hit teachers and other public is sector workers in cash strapped states and cities >>> the new you state of the art sf jazz center opens with a star filled going on as we speak. a few blocks from city hall at franklin and fell in hey's valley. >> reporter: this is just a taste of what tonight's sold out crowd will hear. the first jazz artist to win a grammy of best new artist. the legendary mccoy tyner on piano. grammy winning saxophonist and on drums a member of the sf jazz collective. >> it is nice to have a place dedicated to jazz where you can just play music and just kind of have fun and jazz still fills a lot. ♪ >> musicians say there is no place other than jazz at lincoln center in new york designed with the acoustics and sound system to enhance the beauty of their sound. ♪ >> you want people to feel invit is what i love about the room. >> reporter: the auditorium seats 700 and is is the heart of a three story environmentally friendly complex. which cost around $64 million. all but about 10% if federal funds came from private donations. randall klein is the e

with the recent push for the cash strapped city to sell its vacate island belle island park, you mights the guest, the author the book belle isle, detroit's game changer. you wrote a novella talking about a society that could become its own island. why do you think that might become a reality? >> we have a big problem here. detroit has been in decline for years. this would be a game changer for detroit because it would attract 35,000 or more people from all over the world would be attracted by low regulation. it would be a cool walking community served by monorail which would take you around the island or across the detroit river to a transportation center. >>brian: you want your own currency, you want your own government but yet still live in the u.s. you think you need about $20 billion of public infrastructure. how much would it cost to live there, to buy in? >> well, our numbers indicate it would cost probably about $300,000 per household to come to live there. that money would be used to fund the public infrastructure, for the monorail, streets and so forth and the purchase of the

a group of friends in salt lake city created the sport. you strap a pair of skis to the bottom of the couch up and you go.  >> you want the 49ers to win? they can't play if they didn't make it to the super bowl. they may make it next year. you have to wait. >> sums up the viewings of a lot of us around here can't stan the thought of the ravens and niners playing in the super bowl. >>> baltimore, of course, within driving distance. a lot of fans in the region were hoping the purple and black would win the big game. beth parker has more. >> reporter: on the surface, this man can seem conflicted. on the wall of the northwest office, there is a photo of d.c. next to it, a picture of the umpire state building in his native new york. >> first brooklyn and then queen. >> reporter: he is a new yorker, transplanted to decease -- transplanted to d.c. he grew up a giants fan and when he came here. >> i would go to a few games at the rfk stadium. every time i did, i would try to -- for the redskins and wound up not. [ laughter ] >> r

on a line of people strapped to a gurney. a new york city ferry boat packed with hundreds of rush hour commuters came in for such a hard landing this morning, it slammed into the dock, hurled passengers through the air, down staircases, into windows. at least 70 people were injure ed. an investigation is under way. >>> and tonight, more dramatic images of a planet in chaos from the weather. in the arabian desert, a rare snowstorm. that's snow in jordan. children there amazed and delighted by the strange white stuff all around them. and across the ocean, here at home in chicago, today marks 320 consecutive days without an inch of snow. and that's a 72-year record. >>> and last night we showed you ththe wildfires in australia. well, here are pictures of grandparents forced to take refuge in the ocean water, huddled under a pier with their grandchildren for hours as tornadoes of fire roared past their home. and they are all well tonight. >>> and, there is something that did not happen today that is making news tonight. the baseball hall of fame

they can work farther than that because the technology advances you can strap them on drones and just kind of do sweeps an entire city patrol off the street basically and scan as you go. in aerospace engineering team at the university of texas demonstrated to the department of homeland security how for just two thousand dollars they could get this sort of equipment to basically hijack these domestic drones and then use them for whatever they could crash them into buildings you know use them for their own sort of surveillance i just talked into the information that's in the drones are concerned should we be about this stuff and is the homeland security or the f.a.a. doing anything about this we have just a minute we i mean you already should be concerned because people can legally use drones and conduct surveillance the fact that the legal drones that we know are out there can be hijacked and used for other purposes the surveillance equipment this event surveillance equipment can be used by possibly nefarious actors should incur should really concern us even more and i think that we need to address this issue it's som

tools have become a common sight in britain's towns and cities with the threat of a triple dip recession hanging over them more and more cash strapped families looking for a quick way to make ends meet with a loan from one go dot com you can borrow up to one thousand pounds for up to thirty one days. people can actually just turn on. wine access online ask for two with longer especially up to four hundred pounds could be in the bank within fifteen minutes the find out pay later culture has landed britain's with a whopping one point four trillion pounds in loans and credit cards the northeast in particular has seen a big increase rethink in the number of the payday loans that are popping up on the high street is that here in this part of the sunblock you can see there's not just one of these payday loan stores but see right next door to. this area is one of the poorest in the u.k. and when you take a closer look at these stores promises of instant cash they come with sky high interest rates. then there's no such thing as easy money but the people with financial options and these authors can appear to be lifelines the working providin

tools have become a common sight in britain's towns and cities with the threat of a triple dip recession hanging over them more and more cash strapped families looking for a quick way to make ends meet with a loan from one go dot com you can borrow up to one thousand pounds for up to thirty one days northeast in particular has seen a big increase rethink in the number of payday loans that are popping up on the high street here in this part of the sunderland you can see there's not just one of these payday loan stores but right next door to. this area is one of the poorest in the u.k. and when you take a closer look at these stores promises of instant cash they come with sky high interest rates. but working providing advice days what takes just moments to approve can lead to years of debt misery what happens is if i haven't got the money at the end of the month to be a repeat then of course the rest will continue war and then we're going. to try and pay off the period. saw the most try one go first go on to quick quid i want to hear you clear and it's just a never ending cycle we will be one of the representatives the leading paid a

the problem is after three years the police out of several onto the payroll of the city and estimates always there strapped they're not happy to have them after three years. we have to figure out how to pay for all this business and we can't pay for the mental health services and labor help inhibit services bill required by some of the people committing these crimes if we don't have the money. and so, america needs to face face up to problems. >> even if we solve that problem, do you think there'd be common ground within the congress to do something, to go back? >> absolutely. i will close with very open to the temptation today this very divided nation, there's no purple anymore. the temptation is to say everybody's talking about the issues and connecticut. this is our moment and you go too far rather than finding to do a half of america, it's a republican idea they reject it. this democratic, house rejects it say america can only come together. this is a big issue. so america's leaders need to be in lockstep and say this is what we think is going to solve the problem. >> first of all, i believe this is go

this all got started when friends in salt lake city came up with a new sport. you strapom of your couch and off you go. you can see more of the scouching on facebook, or right here. martha: did you see rosebud named after a character in citizen kane. if you have an old couch it's a good thing. bill: let's go scouching. everybody is doing this. martha: back to the pros and this scary crash with a snowmobile. watch this. this is during the best trick. it took right off, people at the bottom out into the spectators down there. jackson strong from australia was trying to do a backflip over the sled and it got away from him obviously. it went crashing down there, down towards the fans. look at that one person was hurt. the other fans were able to get out of the way. he walked away from the crash. thank goodness that didn't come down on top of him or hit him after he got up. he was very lucky. that is the kind of stuff that happens at the x games, though, one of my favorite sporting events of the year i might add. bill: how do you learn how to do that? how many times do you ha

city. we know how they are strapped. yes to the funding piece. they are having that day to day. what is going on? have you seen his facebook page? i am being bullied on facebook. all of these things that lead us to mental health issues. an officer on the street today gets called because someone is having an episode of some nature. maybe a family member calls or a co-worker calls. having some sort of episode. the officer comes. evaluates, and determines something is going on here. this person needs to be seen. they have committed no crime a lot of the time. in minnesota, and i think this is similar throughout our country, they execute a 72 hour hold. a lot of people say, good. the situation is resolved for 72 hours. this individual will receive some sort of care and diagnosis. that is not true. the hold only gives the authority say, you will have to come to me and this crew and you are going to this hospital. upon arrival, often, because the history is not known, a host of legitimate reasons, the physician or whomever is seeing that prison releases them right then. they are out.

union city was arrested after a neighbor called 9-1-1 to report someone stealing two packages if a proven. -- porch. he is facing charges of's of stolen property and narcotics. >> nhl players will strap their skates on again after reaching an agreement with the owners. that means the san jose sharks will return to action as soon as the league resumes play. the two sides emerged with a deal this morning after 16 hours of talk. they agreed on a ten-year deal where owners and players will spit revenue, 50-50. the players have been locked out for 113 days after the two sides were unable to reach a new collective bargaining agreement. more than 620 nhl games through january 14th have been cancelled. the nhl had models for a 50 and 48 game season but schedule issues have to be work out. we'll have more in sports. >> it is official. new parking rules in police today in san francisco. we will have a live report. >>> plus, a different kind of parking battle as a neighborhood rallies against parkless. >>> and the new debate in washington and what could it mean for your money. >> leigh: i'm meteorologist leigh glaser. the bay area cleared out nicely this afternoon but [ fingers tapping ] [ rain

. >> i believe city parks, their water is roughly four feet deep, so they decided to send the tall guy. that was me. he strappedrs, but the wear was a little higher than expected. >> yeah, i got a little wet, but it was worth it, to save the dog. >> reporter: he tells me the dog helped him out a little. he was actually coming towards me. i think he knew what i was out there to do. i think he was happy to see me. i threw him in the basket and pulled him. >> reporter: we asked if he was prepared. >> the squad does training for things like this, but they're a special unit. they do special training for water rescues or technical rescues. >> reporter: but usually for humans -- >> it's the last thing i expected. >> reporter: he was treated with oxygen and an iv. he was shivering, but at least he's alive. >>> the dog was released to the humane society. it had a collar on it, but nothing to indicate who the owner is. authorities will spend more time trying to find that owner before putting the dog up for adoption. he'll have some takers, safe to say. >> lucky little guy. >>> still ahead the big business move that could

after three years the police officer rosoff under the payroll of the city and as a result if they're strapped, they're not happy after three years. more police is right, bordick to figure out how to pay for all this business and we can't pay for them it's all services and labor health and human services bill required by people commenting are crimes if we don't have the money. so america needs to face up to the problems. >> even if they solve the problem, do you think there'd be common ground in the congress do something, to go back? >> absolutely. i will close with very open that the temptation today in this divided nation, you either red or blue. no purple anymore. the temptation is to save it but he stuck it in a shootings in connecticut. this is our moment. you go too far rather than fighting the doable. the doable as if it's a republican idea, they reject it. a democratic idea, half of america rejects it. america can only come together on this big issue. so america's leaders need to be in lockstep and say this is what we think it's going to solve the problem. >> first of all, i believe th

city where two men and a woman were arrested. police have not said what led to the chase. >>> big, strapping strong athletes facing off with a little very cute animal. guess who wins? the furry creature was a bat. that little bat somehow flew on to the court at last night's basketball game between marquette and providence. the little guy tortured the six-footers. a few brave souls tried to battle the bat. all in all, it was bat, one, athletes, didn't. that is all the important news. now, back to you. >> i could have handled the bat. >> the scenario was you to snake as they are to bats. >> bats don't freak me out like these guys. >> he says that now. >> let's get the bat in here and see how that goes. >> actually, let's not. >> let's just talk about it. >>> stephanie abrams is back. she has the rest of the national forecast. >> let's have a look at what's happening across the country. we are seeing the system right in the middle of the u.s. stretching anywhere from the plains down into texas. it is going to be headed eastbound tomorrow. enjoy that sunshine. you are going to get what's happening in the mid >>> yeah. that system will

city. as a result, if they are strapped, they are not happier to have him after three years, and so more police is exactly right but we have to figure out how to pay for all this business. and you know, and we can't pay for the mental health services and the labor, health and human services bill required by some of the people that are committing these crimes if we don't have the money. so america needs to face up to congress. >> but even if they solve the problem, do you think that they would be common ground with congress to do something to go back? >> oh, absolutely. absolutely. i will close with why open. with the temptation today and is very divided nation, there's no purple anymore, and the temptation is to say, man, everybody's talking about the school shooting in connecticut. you go too far, rather than finding the doable. and the doable is, half of america if it's a republican ideas they rejected. if it's a democratic idea, half of america rejects a. america can only come together -- this is a big issue, and so america's leaders need to be in lockstep on this thing and say this is what

strapped to your helmet and there's no depth perception and objects appear huddled. you can't see the dust but you know it's there. something explodes. try run through a city like that. the phosphorus tracers to bright to your eyes. you don't know how long you'll have to stay on the roof you found yourself on. ordered the family into a room beneath you. you're out of water. you hope the rest of your unit know it's you on the roof. someone is shooting. watch the tracers, keep low. you may be there all night. you may be there for the rest of your life. you watch the windows for nip you don't know. you don't know anyone. thanks to the rules of engagement, pilot identification is reasonable certainty. you're in urban sprawl and your friends' vehicle is ahead, tires burning, the marines are throwing sand on the wreckage. the tires cannot be smothered. you can smell the smoke, and all the while it isn't your house you have invaded. the family in the room beneath you is waiting for you to leave. someone is still shooting. you are not sure, and the shimmering imagination of night vision equipment, if you can see something moving. that can't be positively identifie

city direction with no other mass transit. southbound 680, an accident with a dump truck which has 580 jammed. >> the n ♪ >>> braving outside. a few more inside. we know that robin, robin, strappedhis morning, we have charlie sheen right here as our special guest for the 8:00 hour. welcome, charlie. >> good to see you. >> new season of "anger management" is out. we'll start out by rolling back the clock a little bit. >> okay. >> remember this one? >> you ought to spend a little more time dealing with yourself, a little less time worrying about what your brother does. that's just an opinion. >> what? are you a psychiatrist? >> no. >> why don't you keep your opinions to yourself? >> that hair. >> yeah. >> was that the last episode of "two and a half men"? >> it doesn't beat the hair from "major league." >> it doesn't? >> that was -- i mean, that was a full head. >> that was what happens in bars. >> it's growing back. >> that was "ferris bueller's day off." >> '85? '84? >> you were what? 12? >> i was 19. >> were you really? >> yeah. i was four hours late that day. >> four hours late? >> and the great john hughes said, you're hanging out with the star. awesome. >> serious? >> yeah.

city and at private schools, three. because of funding and what it is in today's world and the economy and education, we know how they are strapped i have for as far at one time. i know how broad and that is not a desired situation by the school or by my department. yesterday finding peace. to the mental health peace, they are in there,, know the case, they even know they don't look right a bad day and the friendships and they talked to someone else will say can't have you seen his facebook page? for i am being taken down and all the things that lead us to mental health issues. regarding mental health issues, today the officer on the street gets caught having an episode of some nature. maybe a family member, coworker or maybe there aren't about having some. the officer comes, evaluate and determine something is going on. this person needs to be seen. if cremated no crime a lot of the time, so they in minnesota tonight and this is similar throughout our country, execute the 72 hour hold. a lot of people think it kind of situation is resold for 72 hours southeast. this individual will be receiving some sort of care and i assays to

city, and i have private schools free. because of funding and what it is in today's world and the economy and education, we know how they're strapped i have four s.r.o.'s at one time. i now have one. that's not a desired situation by the school or by my department. yes to the funding piece. to the mental health piece, the s.r.o.'s, they know the kids. they know when they don't look right. what's going on today? they have friendships and they talk. someone else will say, have you seen his facebook page, or i am being taken down, bullied on facebook and all the things that lead us to mental health issues. and in regard to mental health issues, today, the officer on the street gets called because someone is having an episode of some nature and maybe a family member calls or maybe a co-worker calls or maybe they're just out and about having some sort of episode. the officer comes, evalue waits and determines, something is going on. this person needs to be seen. they've committed no crime a lot of the time, but you can't believe. so they in minnesota and i think this is similar throughout our country execute what's called the 72-hour ho

city and i have private schools, three. buzz of funding and what it is in today's world and the economy and education, we know how they're strapped. i have four s.r.o.'s at one time. i now have one. and that's not an ideal situation. so funding, please. the s.r.o., they're in there, they know the kids, they know when they don't look right, they have friendships, they talk, somebody will say, have you seen her facebook page or i'm being taken down on bullied on facebook. all these things that lead us to mental health issues. in regard to mental health issues, today the officer on the street gets called because someone is having an ep sed of some nature. maybe a family member or co-worker calls or maybe they're just out and about having some sort of episode. the officer comes, evaluates, and determines that, you know, something is going on. this person needs to be seen. they've committed no crime, a lot of the time. but you can't leave. so they, in minnesota, and i think throughout our country, execute a 72-hour hold. a lot of people think, oh, good, the situation is resolved for 7 hours at least, this individual is going to be rec